Oshkosh residents warned of telephone scam

9:53 PM,
Oct. 9, 2013

Written by

Joe Nichols
Reader submitted

The Oshkosh Police Department is alerting citizens to a telephone scam that is occurring in Oshkosh and the surrounding area. A citizen contacted the Oshkosh Police Department and reported that an unknown caller with a foreign dialect had called and told the citizen that there has been unusually high activity coming from the citizen\'s computer and that someone may be trying to hack into the citizen\'s computer.

The citizen was directed to push that Microsoft key on their keyboard. The citizen asked why should she and the caller hung up. The citizen called a local ...